HMS Penzance (M106)

HMS Penzance arrived in Bahrain at the end of July 2014 after a 7,900-mile journey from Scotland.

Since then she has been busy taking part in training, from the world’s biggest mine warfare exercises, to joint work-outs with coalition and local navies operating in the Gulf and surveying routes around the region.

The Royal Navy keeps four minehunters in Bahrain, Sandown-class ships to deal with mines in deeper waters (currently Penzance and Shoreham) and Hunt-class for shallower seas (HMS Atherstone and Chiddingfold), to keep the sea lanes clear.

On the 1st September 2017, HMS Penzance returned to her home in Scotland.